Word: rifted
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...Great Rift Valley can be seen from space. It shears down the eastern shoulder of Africa, a vast geological gash, one of the mysteries of the continent's power. Human life began in the Rift, as if it were gleaming up through a crack in the world...
...immense problems, Morrow and our correspondents hold deep, largely positive feelings toward it -- not as a lost continent but as one yet to be found. "If I could arrange it, I think I would live there," says Morrow. He has even pinpointed the spot: "Probably around the Great Rift Valley, northwest of Mount Kenya on the Laikipia plateau." He could do worse...
...racism might be a factor behind a torrent of criticism from the British press. "Maybe," surmised ) Boutros-Ghali, it was "because I'm a wog." Western diplomats were shocked at the insinuation and the epithet; but many Third World envoys quietly nodded their assent, reflecting the deep North-South rift within...
...nettled McCartney for years that the songs that fell out were always credited to Lennon-McCartney, never McCartney-Lennon. Time has healed the soreness of their 1970 rift. Sort of. "Even when John was attacking me in the press, I thought he was the same great, lovable, complex guy," says McCartney. "I nearly said hateable, but hateable's too far because he's died. If he were alive, I could say that." He has tried various other collaborators, from Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to, most recently, Costello. But, he admits, "it would be mad to think I'd written...
Thus the theme that emerges is one of transformation, of healing. The minor characters hope the sun's warmth will cure their ills; Bernard's family must heal a rift within itself. Bernard himself must try to reconcile his waning faith in God and to heal his loneliness...